The 50th Anniversary Program for Scholars in Medicine was established in 1995 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the admission of women to the Medical School, to acknowledge the important contributions of women to the School, and to enhance the quality and diversity of the Faculty of Medicine at all ranks.

Through the Scholars in Medicine Program, stipends are offered to junior faculty at the most vulnerable point in their academic careers, namely when young physicians and scientists must teach, do research, compete for grants, publish, and practice (if a clinical faculty member) at the same time they are assuming increased family or other responsibilities. The Fellowships can be used to pay for protected time to pursue academic work or to pay for additional laboratory assistance at a time when the junior faculty member does not yet have independent funding. The one year Fellowships, in the amount of $25,000, are intended to be an especially important part of Harvard Medical School's efforts to increase the representation of women at the higher ranks in the Faculty of Medicine.

Over 200 junior faculty members from Harvard Medical School and all of its affiliated institutions responded to the spring announcement of the 1996 Fellowship awards. A faculty selection committee selected seven junior faculty members as the recipients of the 1996 50th Anniversary Program for Scholars in Medicine Fellowships. Three other Fellowships were awarded as part of separate selection processes at the Channing Laboratories and at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

For information on the program, contact Margaret Dale at 432-2496, Bonlyn McBride at 432-0505, or Eleanor Shore at 432-1540.

.A list of the 10 1996 Fellowship recipients follows:

Evan Abel, MBBS, DPhil, Instructor in Medicine, Beth Israel Hospital, Eleanor and Miles Shore Fellowship

Sandra Burchett, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Children's Hospital Department of Medicine Fellowship in honor of Dr. Mary Ellen Avery

Leticia Castillo, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital, Lynne M. Reid Fellowship in memory of Violet and Robert Muir Reid

Lisa Diller, MD, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Children's Hospital Department of Pathology Fellowship in honor of Dr. Lynne M. Reid

Anita Feins, MD, Clinical Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Fellowship in memory of Dr. Robert H. Ebert

Diane Ruth Gold, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Edward and Amalie Kass Fellowship

Hilde-Kari Guttormsen, MD, PhD, Instructor in Medicine

Channing Laboratory, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Edward and Amalie Kass Fellowship

Elaine Hylek, MD, MPH, Instructor in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Alumnae and Friends Fellowship

Francine Welty, MD, PhD, Instructor in Medicine, New England Deaconess Hospital, Irving and Charlotte Rabb Fellowship in memory of Dr. Grete Bibring

Chao-ting Wu, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Richard and Priscilla Hunt Fellowship.